7 - أخبرنا علي بن أحمد، عن عبيد الله بن موسى، عن عبد الرحمن بن القاسم قال: حدثني محمد بن عمرو بن يونس الحنفي، قال: حدثني إبراهيم بن هراسة قال: حدثنا علي بن الحزور عن محمد بن بشر، قال: سمعت محمد بن الحنفية يقول: إن قبل راياتنا رايةً لآل جعفر وأخرى لآل مرداس. فأما راية آل جعفر فليست بشيء ولا إلى شيء. فغضبتُ - وكنت أقرب الناس إليه - فقلت: جعلت فداك، إن قبل راياتكم رايات؟ قال: إي والله، إن لبني مرداس ملكاً موطداً لا يعرفون في سلطانهم شيئاً من الخير، سلطانهم عسر ليس فيه يسر، يدنون فيه البعيد ويقصون فيه القريب، حتى إذا أمنوا مكْرَ الله وعقابه صيح بهم صيحة لم يبق لهم راعٍ يجمعهم، ولا داع يسمعهم، ولا جماعة يجتمعون إليها، وقد ضربهم الله مثلاً في كتابه إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَاءٍ أَنْزَلْنَاهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الْأَرْضِ مِمَّا يَأْكُلُ النَّاسُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا أَخَذَتِ الْأَرْضُ زُخْرُفَهَا وَازَّيَّنَتْ وَظَنَّ أَهْلُهَا أَنَّهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَيْهَا أَتَاهَا أَمْرُنَا لَيْلًا أَوْ نَهَارًا فَجَعَلْنَاهَا حَصِيدًا كَأَنْ لَمْ تَغْنَ بِالْأَمْسِ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ثم حلف محمد بن الحنفية باللهِ إن هذه الآيه نزلت فيهم. فقلت: جعلت فداك، لقد حدثتني عن هؤلاء بأمر عظيم، فمتى يهلكون؟ فقال: ويحك يا محمد، إن الله خالف علمه وقت الموقتين، إن موسى وعد قومه ثلاثين يوماً وكان في علم الله زيادة عشرة أيام لم يخبر بها موسى، فكفر قومه واتخذوا العجل من بعده لمّا جاز عنهم الوقت، وإن يونس وعد قومه العذاب وكان في علم الله أن يعفو عنهم، وكان من أمره ما قد علمت، ولكن إذا رأيت الحاجة قد ظهرت، وقال الرجل: بتُّ الليلة بغير عشاء، وحتى يلقاك الرجل بوجه ثم يلقاك بوجه آخر… قلت: هذه الحاجة قد عرفتها فما الأخرى وأي شيء هي؟ قال: يلقاك بوجه طلق، فإذا جئت تستقرضه قرضاً لقيك بغير ذلك الوجه، فعند ذلك تقع الصيحة من قريب.
(7) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa from Abdurrahman bin al-Qassim from Muhammad bin Amr bin Yousuf from Ibraheem bin Harasa from Ali bin al-Jazwar that Muhammad bin Bishr had said: “I heard Muhammad bin al-Hanafiyya (may Allah be pleased with him) saying: “Before our banner (the banner of al-Qa’im) there will be a banner (rule or state) of the family of Ja’far and another one of the family of Mardas. As for the banner of aal Ja’far, it will begin with nothing (important) and will end to nothing.” I became angry on hearing that. I said to him: “May I die for you! Will there be banners before yours?” He said: “Yes, there will. By Allah, aal Mardas will have a strong rule but with no goodness. Their state will be full of difficulties but with no easiness. They will bring the foreigners closer and will remove the near. When they feel that they are safe from the punishment of Allah and that their state does never decline, a cry will come upon them and then no ruler will remain to gather them, no one to listen to them and no people to support them. Allah has given an example in His Book when saying, ‘Until when the earth puts on its golden raiment and it becomes garnished, and its people think that they have power over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day.” Then Muhammad bin al-Hanafiyya swore by Allah that this verse had been revealed concerning those people. I said to him: “May I die for you! You have told about a great thing concerning those people, then when will they perish?” He said: “O Muhammad (bin Bishr), Allah reverses the timing of the diviners. Prophet Moses 
promised his people (that Allah would do away with their enemy) after thirty days but Allah had determined further ten days and He had not told Prophet Moses of that. When the appointment of the promise passed, the people of Moses disbelieved and began to worship the calf. Prophet Younus (Jonah) warned his people that they would be tortured but Allah had willed to forgive them but without informing Prophet Younus of that and then happened what had happened to them. When you see neediness spread and one says that he has spent his night without eating anything and when one receives you in a manner and the other day he receives you in a different manner then you expect it!” I said: “I know what neediness is. What is the other thing?” He said: “It is when one meets you smilingly but when you go to borrow something from him, he will meet you in a different manner. Then the cry (from the Heaven) will occur somehow soon.”
